Hepatitis
Bilgehan Aygen and others
About 170-200 million people are known to be infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) worldwide. Chronic hepatitis C (CHC) infection carries risks of hepatic fibrosis, cirrhosis, portal hypertension, liver failure, and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) (1-4). Chronic HCV infection is an important health problem in Turkey (5-10). In Turkey, among HCV infections, genotype 1b was reported to be the most common one (90%), while [...] Read More
Anna Pierro and others
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) represents one of the major cause of acute viral hepatitis worldwide, according to the WHO, one-third of the world population has been exposed to HEV. In Europe, there is extensive evidence indicating that HEV is prevalently transmitted by the ingestion of pork and wild boar raw meat, however, [...] Read More
Yeşim Tuyji-Tok and others
Hepatitis C virus (HCV), defined as a non-A non-B hepatitis agent in 1989, is a hepatotropic, noncytopathic, positive-stranded ribonucleic acid (RNA) virus from the family Flaviviridae. HCV infection is an acute or chronic necroinflammatory (...) Read More
Petek Konya and Neşe Demirtürk
Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) is one of the major causes of chronic liver diseases worldwide. Around 296 million people were living with chronic hepatitis B infection in 2019, with 1.5 million new infections each year and more than 820 thousand people losing their life because of hepatitis B virus (HBV) related complications. Chronic HBV (...) Read More
Gülşen Özkaya Şahin and others
Following the increase in number of pediatric cases with acute severe hepatitis of unknown etiology (ASHep-UE), in collaboration with European Center for Disease Control (ECDC) and the United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA), a special late breaking session “Hepatitis of unknown origin” was (...) Read More
Türkkan Öztürk-Kaygusuz and others
Herpes simplex virus (HSV) is a double-stranded DNA alphaherpesvirus. HSV-1 is a common human pathogen infecting more than 60% of the world’s population, and HSV-2 infects about 11% of the population. HSV rarely causes visceral organ infections. However, some of these disseminated infections are life-threatening. Hepatitis due to HSV is a rare (...) Read More
Meyha Şahin and Meltem Yazla
Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a serious public health problem affecting 257 million people worldwide (3.5% of the world population), according to World Health Statistics 2015 by the World Health Organization (WHO). In Turkey, approximately 3.3 million people (4.57% of the population) are considered HBsAg (hepatitis B surface antigen) positive (...) Read More